School Spotlight: Steve Vaughan

What do you like best about what you do? Getting to know the students and seeing them mature. Teaching seniors, I witness their transition from 17-year-old teenagers to young adults.

Who inspires you? My co-workers, and my late parents who were both lifelong educators.

What has been your educational or career highlight? Educational highlight was studying abroad while working on my master’s degree. Career highlight was seeing my first group of students graduate.

If you could go anywhere and study anything what would it be? I would love to go to Greenland to see and explore the archeological evidence of the Viking settlements there.

What’s your favorite subject? That’s a tough one. It is whatever I am teaching at the moment. In the fall, it’s economics. In the spring, it’s government. I also love history, especially classical and medieval history.

What’s the last book you read? The last book I completed is “The Economics of Public Issues” by Roger L. Miller, Daniel K. Benjamin and Douglass C. North. I am currently reading “Christianity after Religion” by Diana Butler Bass.